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Juba, December 1, 2018 (SSNA) — The Republic South Sudan has been named as one of the countries with extreme danger level based on the current threat posed to anyone who wants to travel to the young nation, a report released last month by the Travel Risk Map shows. The company with help from International…

Bentiu, November 30, 2018 — Unknown gunmen have carried out a 10-day raping sphere in Northern Liech State, an aid group Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said in a statement. The agency said the gunmen spared no age during the violence act. “Some are girls under 10 years old and others are women older than 65….

Juba, November 29, 2018 (SSNA) — Ugandan government has violated an arms embargo by covertly funneling weapons to South Sudanese government, a new report released by Conflict Armament Research (CAR) says. The 105-page report states three Europeans countries sold most of the weapons to South Sudan through Uganda, despite a European Union arms ban imposed…

Juba/Addis Ababa, November 24, 2018 (SSNA) — A South Sudanese news editor has lambasted South Sudan’s tycoon Lawrence Lual Malong Yor Junior over what he described as “shameful behavior” shown by the young tycoon. The editor compares the tycoon with a mafia boss who proudly robbed a financial institution. Duop Chak Wuol, the editor-in-chief of…

Juba, November 21, 2018 (SSNA) — South Sudan’s petroleum ministry has signed new contracts with oil companies from Nigeria and Russia, a senior government official who demanded anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media and with full knowledge with the deals told the South Sudan News Agency (SSNA) on Wednesday in…

Juba, November 20, 2018 (SSNA) — The United States-based social media giant, Facebook, has come under international scrutiny after it allowed a 16-year old South Sudanese girl to be auctioned off on its website. The criticism comes nearly a month after Nyalong Ngong Deng was married to a South Sudanese business man. The bridegroom, Kok…

Juba/New York, November 13, 2018 (SSNA) — South Sudan and Uganda could be violating an arms embargo that was imposed on Juba this year, a newly released United Nations report says. The report, which was released on Monday, says South Sudanese government is using foreign private security firms to train its national army and police….

Gambella, November 12, 2018 (SSNA) — Anyuak gunmen have killed South Sudanese refugees in a United Nations-run refugee camp located in Ethiopia’s Gambella region, a senior official working for the Ethiopian Administration for Refugee and Returnee Affairs (ARRA) who demanded his name be submerged because he was not authorized to speak to the media told…

Khartoum, November 2, 2018 (SSNA) — South Sudanese President Salva Kiir on Friday ordered the release of former spokesman for the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-In Opposition’s (SPLM-IO) leadership, the armed opposition has confirmed. The move comes barely two days after Kiir announced during peace celebration in Juba that he was ready to release two rebel-linked…

Juba, October 30, 2018 (SSNA) — South Sudanese main opposition leader Dr. Riek Machar will attend a peace celebration tomorrow, a rebel spokesman said on Tuesday. Colonel Lam Paul Gabriel, the deputy Spokesman for the armed opposition military wing, the Sudan People’s Liberation Army-In Opposition (SPLA-IO), said Machar will be in Juba by October 31,…

New York/Juba, October 16, 2018 (SSNA) — South Sudanese government forces have killed and raped children throughout South Sudan, especially in Unity State, the United Nations said on Monday. In a report, UN’s Special Representative for Children and armed Conflict, Virginia Gamba, told the 15-member Security Council that most of recorded killings and rapes of…

Nairobi, October 12, 2018 (SSNA) — A South Sudanese news editor has harshly criticized Kenya over what he described as “immoral actions” committed by the Kenyan government, saying the East African nation has become a paradise for South Sudan’s war crimes suspects who exploit the ongoing conflict to enrich themselves. The news editor also lambasted Kenya…

Juba, October 5, 2018 (SSNA) — South Sudan’s President, Salva Kiir Mayardit, will never accept a peace that barred him from ruling through decrees, a senior government official who agreed to talk on condition of anonymity told the South Sudan News Agency (SSNA) Friday evening. The official explained that Kiir is more than willing to…

Juba, September 26, 2018 (SSNA) — South Sudan’s civil war has killed at least 382,000 people, a new 45-page study conducted by UK-based London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine finds. The report concluded that half of those who died were killed in the war or violence-related acts and that rest of the dead through starvation,…